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Archive for November 28th, 2008
A tax increase to benefit the, um, environment?
So once again the UK government has seen fit to raise its Air Passenger Duty to try and cover its 118 billion pound deficit in 2010. Amusingly, it is still being presented as an environmental tax, even though the revenue raised now far outweighs the cost of a tonne of carbon and, just as before, [...]
Posted: November 28th, 2008 under Policy.
Tags: air passenger duty, climate change committee, tax, UK government
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